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Biometric Information and Products Links
This page contains various links to useful information about biometrics. The links are organized according to the following categories.
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Books and Publications about Biometrics
by Ruud Bolle, Jonathan Connell, Sharanthchandra Pankanti, Nalini Ratha, Andrew Senior, (Springer Professional Computing), December 2003http://www.cartes.com/en/2005/index.htm
by James Wayman, Anil Jain, Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, October 2004
by Julian Ashbourn, Springer-Verlag; (November 1, 2003)
by Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar, Springer-Verlag; Bk & DVD edition (May 1, 2003)
by John D. Woodward, Christopher Horn, Julius Gatune, RAND Corporation; (January 1, 2003)
http://www.rand.org/publications/DB/DB396/DB396.pdf
by Lawrence Rabiner, Biing-Hwang Juang, Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (April 12, 1993)
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Current Major Biometric Initiatives
US
TWIC is a credentialing program designed to improve security across all transportation modes for personnel requiring access to secure areas of the national transportation system. This program is currently in the Prototype Phase and will utilize a biometric to eliminate the use of fraudulent credentials.
http://www.tsa.dot.gov/public/display?theme=68
US
The Registered Traveler is a pilot program lauched byt the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The Registered Traveler progtam's principal pbjective is the improvement of the security screening process in airports. Approved travelers will be registered biometrically in the program, and will use special lanes at airports (where their biometric information will be verified) for expedited security screening.
http://www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/RT_Factsheet.pdf
Canada
The RAIC program is a credentialing program for personnel requiring access to restricted areas of Canadian airports. The Identification Card will be used to verify the identity of personnel at the time of access to the restricted areas using biometric technology.
http://www.icao.int/icao/en/atb/fal/fal12/documentation/fal12wp039_en.pdf
US
The US-VISIT program is designed to verrify the identity of visitors to the US requiring visas. It uses biometric technology ( fingerprint recognition) to ensure that the person entering the US is the same as the person who applied for the visa.
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/content_multi_image/content_multi_image_0006.xml
Canada-US
The NEXUS Program is a joint program between Canada and the United States designed to simplify border crossings for pre approved, low risk travellers, and uses iris recognition technology.
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel/nexus/menu-e.html
Canada
CANPASS is a program that facilitates the passage through customs and immigration for members of the program. It uses iris recognition to verify membership in the program
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel/canpass/menu-e.html
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Independent Biometric Testing
Testing conducted by NIST on fingerprint recognition algorithms. Includes testing for small scale systems to large scale systems (1:1 to 1:Many)
Facial Recognition Vendor Test. Testing for facial recognition systems conducted by NIST. These tests are run every second year, the most recent being FRVT 2002.
The Fingerprint Vendor Competition (FVC) is run every 2 years by the Biometric Systems Lab (University of Bologna), the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory (Michigan State University) and the Biometric Test Center (San Jose State University).
Testing of different biometric technologies, including fingerprint, facial, and iris, by the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) of the National Physical Laboratory of England.
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Recommended Biometric Articles
A US Department of Defense on-line tutorial to learn the basic terminology about biometrics.
An extensive list of biometric terms from DoD, including a refernce for the definition of each item.
A collection of papers edited by James Wayman, which covers many aspects of biometrics, including standards, testing, and the science.
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Biometric Conferences
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2-4 May 2006, San Francisco, California
9 May 2006, New York City, NY
12-14 July 2006, Seoul, Korea
19-21 September 2006, Baltimore, Maryland
25-28 September 2006, San Diego, California
18-20 October 2006, London, UK
24-26 October 2006, New York, New York
7-9 November 2006, Paris, France
28-30 November, 2006, Milan, Italy
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Standards pertaining to Biometrics
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 WG 01 - Harmonized Biometric Vocabulary
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 WG 02 - Biometric Technical Interfaces
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 WG 03 - Biometric Data Interchange Formats
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 WG 04 - Biometric Functional Architecture and Related Profiles
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 WG 05 - Biometric Testing and Reporting
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 WG 06 - Cross-Jurisdictional and Societal Aspects
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